What is it about?
Air at 20 and 42 degrees induce approximately the same vestibular responses as water at 30 and 44 degrees. The duration of vertigo, however, is smaller and this represents less discomfort to the patient.
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Why is it important?
This was an early report on air calorics
Perspectives
Caloric tests are now used in special cases, they are no longer the most important vestibular tests.
Professor Pedro Mangabeira Albernaz
Hospital Albert Einstein
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This page is a summary of: THE USE OF AIR IN VESTIBULAR CALORIC STIMULATION, The Laryngoscope, December 1972, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1288/00005537-197212000-00008.
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